Saturday, August 18, 2007

Plac.Art.X is a placard taking place on the 18th august 2007 at Leerer Beutel in Regensburg/Germany. Placard or if in english – headphone festival is an alternative form of participating in music, both as a listener and as a performer artist. No more feedbacking loudspeaker systems, no more complaining neighbours. Headphone festivals are a social and musical experiment. You can listen and participate in the Plac.Art.X both in Regensburg and also remote from internet thru audio streams on the web. The placard is one of the happenings during the art.xxXtenxions weeks during august from Pomodoro Bolzano media art group and the placard is curated from their artist in residency Björn Erikson (aka Miulew) from Sweden. Here is where you can tune in via your media player (VLC, Winamp, iTunes etc) and a pair of headphones: http://d-oo-b.cc:8038http://d-oo-b.cc:8038/listen.pls

Location: Leerer Beutel, Regensburg-Germany

Date: 18th august

Time: 3pm CET to 3am CET (12 hour)

Free entrance. (bring your headphones, just in case it is getting crowdy)

Surprice guests will appear and things will happen for sure so don´t except above list or the one below to be a static one. We are trying to send a webcam feed from this placard. More on this and how the webcam interfacing goes will be able to catch up at the IRC-chat that is ported to Internet under http://pjirc.goto10.org/?channel=placard

Sunday, July 8, 2007

On the 18th august 2007 Plac.Art.X is taking place in Regensburg, Germany. This will be a 12 hour placard, starting at 3 pm and ending 12 hours later in night at 3am. Placard is from the french word - and here stands for headphone festivals. Placards has been going on for a while now, with start in France by Erik Minkkinen and his friends ten years ago. Usually a placard has between 12 to 24 headphones available for listening on live acts making music and sounds. It is not meant that all people shall listen at headphone all the time as an important factor is to socialize and talk about the sounds and music you or others have heard on phones. Pretty often placards are like a party at a friends place - and not without reason the device "Placard - headphone and beers" are put up at posters and invitations. The artists are usually often in the same room as the placard listeners but can also come in virtual thru audio streams on internet so placard often twistes the listeners perception of a room. A sound room. The Plac.Art.X in Regensburg will be a mix on location artists and virtual remote artists and goes well with the ongoing research of mixed reality happenings. Here is a video where you can get a pretty good overview of what a placard can be. We are now setting up the placard on the web and we take applications and suggestions. Read more on placards here. You can either join us in Regensburg or come to us thru the streams on the web. In any case, please contact us about participation with sending a mail to us at miulew at gmail dot com.